[.uk] The Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of ... (ISBN 1594867402)

The SuperFoods RX Diet:
This book is loaded with awesome information! Once you understand exactly how this work, it is very easy. It can be a little difficult to digest all of the information. There is so much, that it may be intimidating to some. The food is good, and the results are great! I lost 9# my first week. I rarely feel hungry. I find it hard most of the time to consume all of the food you are supposed to. If you are considering getting this book, just get it. I feel it is worth every penny I spent.

Too complicated!:
Aaaack! Excellent nutritional information, but twice I've picked up this book and twice I've put it back down in sheer frustration, finding it much too complicated to incorporate the information into a fully inclusive meal plan. Category 1 foods are confusing--in one place in the book it states the user should eat 1 serving from Category 1 every day. In another place in the book it states the user should eat 1 serving of EACH of the Category 1 foods every day. Which is it? I need a table with boxes to check off in order to put together a complete meal plan--the one in the book is incomplete. It should offer check off boxes for the number of daily servings required from each category. Perhaps I'm making this more complicated than it needs to be. At this point the most I'm willing to do is to make a list of the superfoods and incorporate them into my regular diet. Forget the complicated meal planning.

Super first half but confusing complicated diet:
As a fan of the original Superfoods book (which is one of the best books on nutrition I've ever read) I was eager to give the diet version a try. The first half of this book is great - just like the original Superfoods. It gives terrific information on how nutrients in the superfoods themselves help to stimulate weight loss. It's very clear and actually kind of exciting because you get excited when you learn that some of the nutrients actually speed weight loss. This goes beyond calorie counts and it was new and interesting information for me. But then you get to the diet itself and, oh boy.... I was overwhelmed. It's just too complicated. I kept trying to figure out how to juggle these different categories and the special drinks and then I just gave up. It's too bad that the diet itself has to be such a challenge to follow. I'm going to keep eating the superfoods but I'll have to find some other diet book to help me lose weight.

What?:
What? Did anyone use this book before it went to print? Does it really take an entire paragraph to cover the with or without grains? Why in Chapter 3 am I asked "If you didn't create your menu plan as suggested in Prep & Practice Week detailed in the next chapter, now's the time to do it." Are you kidding me. Why on page 193 under the Lunch and Dinner Selections is there just an outline that is confusing. But wait there is more turn the page and you get to read it again but this time with the information that you are really looking for. Why am I given mix and match options before I am given the real options that I get to mix and match with? I know that there is life changing information in this book and I am going to figure it out, but by the time I figure it out the book is going to be worn out. There should have been a prep and practice period before this book went to press. Maybe it should have been put in the hands of your everyday user to better arrange the layout.

Great nutrition info . . . complicated diet:
I've yoyo-ed through a lot of different diets, across the decades, learning that some work better than others. One thing for sure: if you can't stay on it, you can't lose weight. Managing hunger is a biggie--and so is being able to conduct your life amidst your diet. This diet does a good job with the first issue, but falls down on the second because of all its "overhead." That is, you have to pick different amounts from a variety of food groups, vary the combinations during the week, plan ahead, execute the plan, keep records . . . Not that there's anything wrong with that. But it TAKES TIME. Start with a diet that gets you up and running a little quicker. I like "The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet," which directs you toward the same foods (e.g., salmon, walnuts, blueberries--though, sugary carrots and oranges, not so much) in a less complex program. Then add in this book, along the way, to find more great information and diet pointers.